"counting on you and others of good character to save my life. I am unbroken, albeit literally surrounded by murderers, but, the days where I could read and speak and organize to defend myself, my ideals, and my people are over until I am free!"Assange, May 23 2019

Snowden warned in 2014 that even a President could be targeted. But long before "intelligence agencies were used against a President", they were used against ordinary citizens: activists, journalists, academics, dissenters.